Our new store manager has made it a point, if he catches anyone with drinks on the sales floor(including water) he will fire them, now I'm not stupid, I know he can't fire people for this, but its bull**** my wife is a cashier, sh is 8 months pregnant, and has been to the hospital three time for dehydration, well no exceptions according to him, she asked if she could bring a doctors not, he won't except it, he say its unprofessional, now what customer is gonna complain cause an employee is drinking water, anyway rant over
Yeah that's unprofessional BS. I'd talk to your union rep. My store isn't nuts like that and the manager rarely surfaces. Some cashiers keep water from starbucks at the registers but mostly people don't poke the bear which is stupid since I get dehydrated when it's hella busy and they'd rather me use the water fountain. Makes a lot of sense...not.
It's funny there always talking about productivity, and they want the store run like a machine,well I don't see the problem with water, our old store manager used to actually provide us with free water bottles, which was cool as ****
Our new store manager has made it a point, if he catches anyone with drinks on the sales floor(including water) he will fire them, now I'm not stupid, I know he can't fire people for this, but its bull**** my wife is a cashier, sh is 8 months pregnant, and has been to the hospital three time for dehydration, well no exceptions according to him, she asked if she could bring a doctors not, he won't except it, he say its unprofessional, now what customer is gonna complain cause an employee is drinking water, anyway rant over
I would think your wife could drink before work, during her break and after work and be ok. She needs to ask her doctors what is causing her dehydration. No coffee, cola etc. but I'm sure she knows that. Tell her to get a doctors note anyway and give it to the manager. That way she can walk to the water fountain if he won't let her have a drink at the register. Sorry, but the manager can't deny her a drink if she has a doctor's note. The manager has to accommodate her or quite possible face a lawsuit.
Our new store manager has made it a point, if he catches anyone with drinks on the sales floor(including water) he will fire them, now I'm not stupid, I know he can't fire people for this, but its bull**** my wife is a cashier, sh is 8 months pregnant, and has been to the hospital three time for dehydration, well no exceptions according to him, she asked if she could bring a doctors not, he won't except it, he say its unprofessional, now what customer is gonna complain cause an employee is drinking water, anyway rant over
Id say "fine. But if ANYTHING happens to my wife or unborn baby due to your refusal to let my wife drink EVEN with having a doctors note, I WILL press charges against YOU! So hows that for 'professional?'"
your wife's health and your baby to be's health is MORE important than ANY policy regarding water due to professionalism
He's just another out of touch, drunk on "power" manager that doesn't care one bit about the people earning him his paycheck and his bonuses. You'd think he'd be a bit more grateful, but nope. Is he another one of those hypocrites in management that want to enforce a no water rule while he and/or the co-managers/associate managers walk around on the sales floor with frigging Starbucks coffees and/or energy drinks? Wouldn't surprise me if he was, but if you try and call them out on their hypocrisy, somehow you're the one in the wrong.
I agree that the health of your wife and your future baby are more important than Kroger - more important than any job, so to hell with that store manager. If he tries to throw his useless weight around, I concur with getting the union in there and putting that arrogant piece of s*** in his place.
Get a doctors note and threaten to take legal action if he fires you. While there isn't a widespread law against violating doctors notes, employers can't fire their employees for their disabilities and they must provide reasonable accommodations for them.
Also, if they are concerned about "professionalism", they should take another look at their policy of scheduling as few hours as possible. Not having things in stock and waiting in a long like to check out are much less professional than drinking water while working.